Advertising device



June 2, 1925.

I. H. SMITH ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed Aug. 9, 1923 v gmntoz IG HT CHART zffsmufz M lil Patented `lune 2, 1925'.

UNITED STATES IRA HUGH SlVlIITl-I,l 0F GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

i Application led August 9, 1923.- Serial No. 656,623.

To all Lc/tom t may concern: Y l

Be it known that I, IRA HUGH citizen of the United States, residing at (reeneville, in the county of Greene and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification. y

My inventionrelates to advertising de vices and has forits object the provision of an inexpensive attachment for weighing .scales so constructed as to kbe capable of displaying a number-of announcements and automatically operated to move thev announcements about the weight dial as the scale is operated. The invention provides a movable sign carrier mounted concentrically with and about the dial of the scale and includes a device which is actuated by the rotation of the index member of the scale so as to call attention to the announcements. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and consists in certain novel features which will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a weighing scale having my attachment applied thereto;

Fig. 2 .is an enlarged vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; 1

F ig.` 3 is a rear elevation, partly broken away, of `a part of the sign device, and

Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 1*4 of Fig. 2`

The weighing scale may be of any wellknown form and is illustrated as comprising a pedestal 1 rising from a platform 2 and housing mechanism which actuates a shaft 3 when a person steps upon the platform. rllhe scale is shown as including a dial 4 xed to the upper casing 5 of the scale and having an elongated hub 6 constituting a bearing for the shaft 3. Graduations, indicated at 7, are, of course, provided upon the face of the dial 4, and to the front end of the shaft 3 is secured a pointer or index linger 8 which plays over the dial in the usual manner. The upper portion of the casingr is, in the present instance, so constructed as to provide a plurality of open spaces 9 around the edge of the dial 4 and through which announcements upon a sign carrier may be read. These announcements may be painted or otherwise displayed directly upon the SMITH, a

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over the ratchet teeth 16 when moving Vdisk 11 having a hub12 loosely mounted upon the hub 6 of the ldial4.` The 'disk l1 has its edge or peripheral portion turned forwardly toward the dial, as shown at 13,

and then carried outwardly parallel with the `centralportion of the disk and doubled upon itself to provide the flanges' 14 and 15 which are adaptedto snugly receive the announcement cards 10and thereby Aretain the said The Vouter flange 15 is preferably ofthe open construction employed in Y the frame 5 whereby spaces are defined to mark off and separate the different announcements. i On thev inner or rear'side of the disk 11 adjacent and concentric with the hub 12 thereof I provide a circular series of ratchet teeth 16, and in rear of the hubs 6 and 12., I secure to the index shaft 3 `a bracket 17 having an arm 18 extending forwardly parallel with thek shaft. The front or outer` end of this arm 18 is forked, as indicated at 19, and a pawl 2O is provided with a tongue 21 which is pivotally secured within the fork. The outer end of the pawl is beveled, asindicated at.22, whereby it may ride in one direction but `will engage said teeth and impart movement to the disk 11 when moving in the opposite direct-ion. The pawl is yieldably held in engagement with they ratchet teeth vby a spring 23 which is secured upon the arm 18 and has its free` end playing ina groove -24 provided `in the back `of the pawl, as clearly shown.

In'the dial 4 of the scale is formed an arcuate slot 25 and vpivoted upon the back of the dial concentric with said slot isa rocking arm 26, said rocking arm carrying at its upper end a pin 27 which plays in the slot 25 and carries an indicator 28 upon its front end which may be in the form of a hand with the. index linger pointing toward the periphery of the dial. Also secured to the upper end of the rocking arm 26 is a shoe 29, and upon the front side of the disk 11 I provide a plurality of projections 30 which are arranged in a circular series concentric with the hub of the disk and are adapted to ride against the shoe 29, as will beV readily understood. Upon reference to Fig.` 3 more particularly, it will be noted that the shoe 29 is so disposed that it Will be presented obliquely to the projection 30 and, consec 1ue1i tly','` Y as` the, projection" moves with the disk 11 it will push thesh'oe outwardly and thereby move the rocking arm 26 and the indicator 28 towardj 'the periphery of the dial 4. A contractile spring 31 is attached to the shoe and to the dialkso as to bracket-17 and the arm 18j will, of course,

turn with the s'h'aft and as the pawl 2O is in en'g'agement with one of the teeth 16 the sigh carrier will be rotated withr the shaft. inasmuch as the projections 30 are fixed to lthe diskl 11 which constitutes the central bod orti'on of the sion carrierl the saidv p. e i i `project-ions` will ride` successively againstV and past the shoe 29 and `the indicator 28 will be oscillated so thatftheV person standing' upon the-scale will have his attention directed to `the several signs or announceinentsfwhich are being rotated about the dial simultaneously with` the pointerA 8. Vhen the pointer 8 comes to rest, the movement of the several sign cards will likewise cease and when the user of the scale steps off the platform, 4the pointer 8 will return to the zero position, as shown, the return movement of the pointer and the shaft `3 causing the bracket 17 and the` arm 18 to travel `reversely over'the `ratchet teeth 16 withoutl actuating thsign carrier but setting the parts .in position to aga-iny actu-ate the saine the nekt time the scale is used.

My device is `exceedinglysimple in con structionandA compact in arrangement. It will operate automatically to call attention tothe. announcements displayed ab'o'ut the scale dial whenever the sc afle is used and, as the working parts are all hou'sedvwithin the casing of the scale, they are protected against tampering and are knot apt to get out of order.

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Having' thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: s 1.'^ The combination with it-he dial, the pointer `and pointer shaft of a weighing scale, of a sign carrier mounted concentrically with the dial and displaying announcements about the periphery of the dial, a bracket secured to the pointer shaft in rear of the carrier and having an arm extending forwardly toward.tlie carrier, a circular series of ratchet teeth on the back of the sign carrier Aconcentric with .the pointer shaft, and anpawl mounted bn the sideA of the forwardly projecting arm f said bracket and adapted to4 engage the ratchetylte'etli upon vmovement of the shaft in one direction and to ride'over theA ratchet-teeth uponl movement 4of the shaft-in the opposite direction. 2. The combination of a weighing scale dial haifing an arcuate slot formed therethrough,` a pointer shaft extending centrally through the dial, a pointer carried by said shaft to ntove over the dial, a sign carrier concentric with the dial and displaying announcements at the periphery of the dial', means whereby said sign carrier will be rotated. upon movement of the pointer and the= pointer shaft in one direction,r al rocking arm pivoted upon the Vback of the dial concentric with;l the slot therein,- a shoe carried by said rocking arm", an indicator disposed inA front of the dial, a'pin connecting said indicator'with the rocking arm and passing throughy the slot in the dial, yieldable means for holding the indicator at'on`eeiid of the slot, and projections upon thesign kcarrier adapted to ride against the shoe and thereby nio've theindicator to the opposite/'end of the arcuate slot.

3. rlhe combination with the dial and pointer of a Weighing scale, of a sign' carrier mounted concentric with the dial and displayingl announcements Y around the periphery of the dial', an indicator mounted in front of the dial, and means on the back of the dial connected with said indicator and actuated by the sign carrier to reciprocate tlieindicatori i l In' testimony whereof I aiiizz my signature.` v,

'IRA HUGH SMITH. [n s] 

